30 December 2007, Day 6

I think it was safe to say that all were eager to get back home after 5 days of wanderings. We had breakfast again at the lobby restaurant of the hotel and were on the road by about 10:30 AM. I nixed a suggestion to visit SM Baguio hoping to be in Luisita in Tarlac by lunch and home by mid to later afternoon. There was the expected traffic in the major towns in Pangasinan and we reached Luisita by about 1:30 PM and were back on the road at almost 3 PM after coffee at Starbucks. It was 4:30 PM when we paid the toll in the NLEX and were home after another hour or so before 6 PM.

Before this trip even came to end, we were planning our next ones. There is the trip this summer driving our other car back to Manila after we close the house in Bacolod. We are also planning to take Mirens sister to the north when she visits on June. There is also the missed legs to Banaue and Sagada via Halsema. I would also like to be able to drive further south past Sariaya in Quezon and visit other eastern provinces such as Aurora. I have traveled abroad on several occasions but Miren hasn't and I would like to take her even to Hong Kong or Singapore this year. Our dream is to backpack through Europe someday. More than anything else, these are the stuff that keeps us going and looking forward to the next break or vacation.

But for now, home beckons.

Total expense for the day was P4,519. Final odometer reading was 1,332 kilometers.

Trusty Steed

30 December 2007, Day 6

Las Pinas, Philippines